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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Clifford the Big Red Dog

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Through the power of play and imagination, Clifford and Emily Elizabeth brave exciting new adventures together, explore their island home, meet new friends, and learn that the differences between us- even big, red differences- can often...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Grande O Pequeno? Lo Podemos Clasificar Todo!

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Encuentre lo que es similar y lo que es diferente mientras exploran objetos.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Everyday Learning

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learning does not take place only in the classroom. Learning occurs naturally, every day! This KET collection uses original animation and wonderful, visual images to introduce basic concepts of math, science, social studies, art, and...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using and Creating a Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will investigate classification through a sorting activity and discus real-life evidence of classifying objects.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Inquiry to Group Minnesota Critters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will observe and investigate various characteristics of Minnesota critters, and then chart and give reasons for the way they grouped them.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Graphing Fall Leaves

For Teachers K - 1st
Students use leaf classifications they created to graph the properties of leaves they collected on their playground.
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Handout
University of Hawai'i

University of Hawaii: Bubble Sort

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains how a bubble sort works along with examples and source code.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Sorting

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students learn about data sorting, and by what criteria can one sort things by different algorithms such as selection, insertion and bubble sort.
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Website
Other

Interactive Data Structure Visualizations: Quick Sort

For Students 9th - 10th
A visualization / animation of a quick sort at work. The animation will work in either automatic mode or a mode where the user can drive. The animation can be found under the "Efficient Sorts" link in the left panel.
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Website
University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Bin Sort

For Students 9th - 10th
A description and demonstration of the bin sort algorithm.
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Activity
University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Quick Sort

For Students 9th - 10th
A description and demonstration of the quick sort algorithm.
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Interactive
Other

Kinderweb: Educational Children's Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this site to practice identifying shapes, colors, and animals with these interactive games.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Feline Facts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] Classification web to sort and group ideas about cats. Students pull facts from behind cat photo and place into proper place on web. Use with any reading books related to cats.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Guess My Button

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This website gives students an opportunity to sort and classify attributes of a group. The applet responds to each selection made and guides student to the next step.
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which learners learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Sort and Count Ii

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The purpose of this task is for young scholars to sort the same set of objects according to different attributes and to practice counting to tell the number of objects in a set. The teacher should accept any way the child wants to sort...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Sort and Count I

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars will have fun moving around the room and comparing items using sorting cards. They will become familiar with the math vocabulary more/less/same and most/least.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Goodie Bags

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Pairs of students will compare 3 quantities and order them from least to greatest. Students will select a pre-filled baggie and sort and count the contents. They will then arrange each group in order from least to most. This activity can...
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Professional Doc
Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source: Beginning Reading and Phonological Awareness

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Key to learning how to read is the ability to identify the different sounds that make words and to associate these sounds with written words. There are 44 phonemes in the English language, including letter combinations such as /th/,...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Cube

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students sort word cards according to categories including: food, clothing, sports, animals, classroom things, and things with wheels. Materials are included.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic Teachers: Celebrate the 100th Day of School!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scholastic has put together 100th day math ideas from several different teachers. Includes "zero, my hero", probability, sorting, measuring, estimating, counting, weighing, money, and other ideas for celebrating the 100th day.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Fuzz Bugs Counting, Sorting, & Comparing

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fuzz Bugs is fun activity for Pre-K and Kindergarten children to practice counting, sorting, and comparing. Kids will interact with funny little Fuzz Bugs to complete several tasks that include: categorizing by color, counting to ten,...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Jelly Beans Add Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The lesson will explore counting, sorting, and graphing skills. The lesson provides learners an exciting and fun way of exploring and internalizing graphing, sorting, and counting skills. Realistically, the students will discover what...